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v. social movements.
Certain representations in the reports of trade inspectors on the effects
and application of protective legislation, led to several proposals being
brought forward in the Riksdag for the amendment or supplementation of
the laws on the subject. In response to these proposals, the Riksdag
resolved in 1903 to demand the amendment of the Protection of Workers
and the Children’s Employment Acts, and other statutes connected with
them. The execution of this duty was delegated by the Government in
1905 to a Committee (generally known as the Protection of Workers
Committee), the third Committee for the Protection of Workers in the history
of Swedish social legislation.
The Committee brought forward at the end of 1909 its Report, containing
proposals for laws relating to the protection of workers, domestic industries,
communal inspectors, and the organization of official administration. The
Committee’s proposals for a law for the protection of workers, the chief result of
its work, were intended to supersede the Acts of 1881 and 1900 relating to
the Employment of Women and Children and the Protection of Workers Act
of 1889.
The main proposal of the Committee was made the basis of a Government
Bill on the subject in the Riksdag in 1912. The Riksdag having passed
the Bill with certain modifications in detail, it was issued as the Protection
of Workers Act of the 29tli June 1912. For the substance of this Act
see below.
The chief provisions of the proposal drafted by the Committee for a law relating
to. work in Home Industries, were those rendering it obligatory (1) for an employer
to keep a special register of home workers in his employ, (2) to furnish the
workpeople with wage books, containing statements as to the nature of the
work, the wages of labour, and so on, and (3) for a worker to report any case
of infectious disease occurring on his or her person. These proposals
encountered violent opposition from various quarters, and were ultimately shelved. In
1912, however, the Government commissioned the Kommerskollegium (Board of
Trade) to set on foot a thorough inquiry into the occurrence and extent of
home industries in Sweden, and into the economic and social conditions under
which this kind of work was carried on.
Besides the new Act of 1912, there are two other important Swedish
laws in the sphere of the protection of workers, namely the Women’s Night
Work Act and the Early Closing Act.
The former of these laws is the first and sole application in Sweden of
protective legislation proceeding from international agreement. At the
initiative of the International Association for the Legal Protection of
Workers,1 after various preliminaires, a convention was concluded at Bern
in 1906 between the majority of European States and among them Sweden,
"for the Prohibition of Night Labour for Women employed in Industrial
Occupations". In 1907 the Swedish Government commissioned the
Protection cf Workers Committee to draw up proposals on the subject, on the
1 This society has had a Swedish section since 1909. The headquarters of its committee
are at Stockholm.
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